Short-term prediction, decision support systems and predictive modeling:
all familiar concepts to experts in transportation, but given the many real-time adaptive traffic management systems, do we really need them?

An effective decision support system that looks into the short-term future, integrated with real-time traffic management, provides an advanced ITS toolkit that enables traffic managers to deal with unplanned incidents and high-level policies that normal traffic management systems on their own would struggle with.

This article looks at the ways in which Aimsun Live decision support can help to augment traditional real-time ITS and help authorities work towards truly ’smart‘ highway systems and connected cities.

Read the full article here.